The Responsibility to Protect is premised on the basic principle that states have the primary responsibility to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. In the event that the state is unable or unwilling to do so, the responsibility to protect falls upon the shoulders of the international community.
On 23rd July, the United Nations General Assembly will hold a plenary debate on the Responsibility to Protect to advance the doctrine into a…
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Posted on July 20, 2009 at 9:36am —
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